..Smoking cessation, bronchodilation, and pulmonary rehabilitation are cornerstones of treatment of COPD. Improvement in lung mechanics and gas exchange should lead to better sleep quality and health status...

..Improved techniques to measure and quantify sleep itself will allow for more meaningful assessment of sleep disruption that can lead to the recognition of new disorders and better predictions of the outcomes of these disorders...

..Further treatment trials are needed to determine whether treatment improves outcome after stroke and whether treatment may serve as secondary prophylaxis and modify the risk of recurrent stroke or death...